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Breast cancer: conflating case fatality with mortality

While we agree with Taylor and colleagues that the prognosis for women with breast cancer has improved, we […]

September 12, 2023 Oncology

National Cancer Research Institute to close in “another blow” to UK research community

The National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), a UK wide partnership between cancer research funders, has announced that it […]

June 28, 2023 Oncology

Harald zur Hausen: groundbreaking HPV researcher and vaccination advocate

bmj;381/jun20_13/p1421/FAF1fahausen160623.f1Credit: Thomas Lohnes/DDP/AFP/Getty ImagesIn 1842 an Italian physician in Florence observed that married women were getting cervical cancer […]

June 20, 2023 Oncology

Beach nudity spreads skin cancer message

bmj;379/nov29_12/o2882/FAF1faDon ArnoldThousands of people posed naked on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, at sunrise last Saturday. They were […]

November 29, 2022 Oncology

Quebec doctors’ letter forces government rethink on polluted cancer black spot

An open letter from 50 local physicians has brought promises of government action in an industrial Quebec town […]

July 20, 2022 Oncology

Chemotherapy delivery service by drone lifts off

bmj;378/jul12_12/o1709/FAF1faPatients with cancer in England will be the first in the world to benefit from chemotherapy delivered by […]

July 12, 2022 Oncology

Shortages of radiology and oncology staff putting cancer patients at risk, college warns

Patients in the UK with cancer are at risk from “devastating” effects of shortfalls of key radiology and […]

June 10, 2022 Oncology

Russia’s war in Ukraine is killing cancer care in both countries

As the war in Ukraine unleashed chaos and upended millions of lives, many Ukrainians had to flee to […]

March 23, 2022 Oncology

Government has overseen “years of decline” in cancer and elective care, say MPs

The Department of Health and Social Care for England has presided over a sustained decline in the NHS’s […]

March 16, 2022 Oncology

Oncologist with “cavalier attitude” to treatment is suspended for nine months after patients defend his practice

Justin Stebbing, an oncologist with a world reputation for cutting edge treatment and research, has been suspended from […]

December 21, 2021 Oncology

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